Recipe: Tasty Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew

Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew. Chow Chow Kootu is one of the common kootu (stew) variety made in Tamil Nadu. Chow Chow is cooked with yellow moong dal with coconut and Chayote (Chow Chow) is an edible plant and like bitter gourd, ridge gourd, this also belongs to gourd family. Chow Chow is is low in Saturated Fat,and.

Chow Chow Kootu - Indian Chayote & Lentil Stew. Chow Chow or the Indian Chayote is also known as Bangalore Brinjal, Cho Cho etc. Its a kind of squash and you cook it like you would a pumpkin. You can cook Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew

1. You need 2 of Chayote.
2. Prepare 1 cup of moong dal.
3. You need 300 ml of water.
4. It's 1 tbsp of ghee.
5. It's 1 tsp of mustard seeds.
6. You need 5 of curry leaves.
7. You need to taste of salt.
8. It's 1 handful of coconut scrapings.
9. You need 1 tbsp of cumin jeera /.
10. Prepare 7 of chillies dry red.

Chow-Chow (Merakai) cooked with lentils and simmered with coconut and cumin seeds. This is an everyday lentil - Chow Chow Kootu recipe. Cook chayote in water adding sambar powder, turmeric powder and salt needed until soft. Pressure cook tur dal until soft. (only if you use tur dal alone, otherwise you can add it along with the chow chow and cook chow chow.

Chow-Chow Kootu / Chayote Lentil Stew instructions

1. Cook 1 cup of moong dal(add water until the moong dal submerges or about 200 ml)  in pressure cooker up to 4 whistles or cook it in microwave for 15 minutes in high power..
2. Peel and chop the chow-chow or chayote into small cubes and put it ina vessel. Add enough water and cook this on medium heat. Sprinkle little salt for the chow-chow to cook faster..
3. Take the ingredients mentioned under "For the paste" in a blender jar, add little water(about 6 tbsps) and grind this to smooth paste. It should look like a chutney..
4. Now check if the chow-chow- or chayote is cooked by inserting a knife, if it goes in easily then it is cooked. Now add the cooked moong dal and the ground paste to this and mix. Let it boil for about 6 minutes. Keep stirring do not leave this boiling continuously on medium heat. At this stage it will easily stick to the bottom of the vessel and burn, Keep stirring in equal intervals..
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6. Take the kootu off the heat and take a tadka pan, on medium heat, crackle 1 tsp of mustard seeds and curry leaves in a tablespoon of ghee. Add this to the kootu and mix..
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Chow Chow Milagu Kootu Recipe is a mildly spiced kootu recipe. Peppercorn, cumin seeds, coconut paste added to the kootu makes it oh so flavourful. Chow Chow Milagu Kootu Recipe is a mildly spiced kootu recipe, usually had along with rasam and steamed rice in southern India. I got a good number of responses for it. It gave me an idea of is expected.